Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 If RC remains steady within 2–3° of its 0° plus/minus drift position , then track straight to the station is being maintained and your estimated drift allowance is correct .
2 Hook a triple transfer tool in three needles at left of centre , pull the needles to E position then push back to A position — once the stitches are on the transfer tool , it is safe to lift them out of the needles .
3 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before )
4 It is envisaged that the national squad will spend two weeks in Johannesburg next March and then head straight to Kenya for three weeks of Cup cricket after which the top three teams will qualify for the 1995 World Cup to be staged jointly by India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka .
5 Glue the frame on to a piece of coloured card , matching the edges and corners , then glue on to white card , again carefully matching the edges and corners .
6 It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes .
7 So take your time to learn the phrasing , start off slowly and then build gradually to the written tempo in each case .
8 A brief pass through the check list , the required stall , all within sight of the field and then touch down to much relief of the owners , Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd .
9 And what we would do in those circumstances sir is if the late objections er the objections or representations that were to arrive er up to let us say five o'clock tomorrow , we would er deal with and then send on to you with copies to the objector of course .
10 Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee
11 I think I 'll have one more small whisky to keep the blood from cooling , and then slip back to Deptford and crack a couple of heads .
12 On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use .
13 As you requested , your identity will be preserved in the approach letter and interested parties will be asked , in the first instance , to contact MAS , who will assess the parties ' willingness to proceed and then report back to yourselves .
14 Ulster Unionist secretary Jim Wilson said he would speak to the American Consulate about the purpose of the group 's meeting with Sinn Fein and then report back to senior party members .
15 I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) .
16 Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’
17 Don and wife Barbara will travel to Hobart in Tasmania to watch the start of the third leg on February 13 and then fly on to London via Sydney and Los Angeles .
18 In other words , she had to go off and find places for herself and then fly back to me .
19 Tomorrow she 'll fly back to her home in Chicago , write the vocals , then fly back to Detroit to record them .
20 Then flick over to there .
21 I tell you I do n't , did n't realise that er Paul and Charlene have said er they can move in by June the second all you 've got ta do is dump everything in there then bugger off to Malaya for the summer and sort out when he gets back !
22 We were going to say hullo to you , and then walk round to that little island — it 's called Seal Island — I ca n't say the Gaelic name but Mrs McDougall told me that 's what it means .
23 Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college .
24 For Bolton Abbey ( open all year from dawn to dusk ) , start at the Abbey car park , go north to Simon 's Seat then walk over to Howgill and return on the banks of the River Wharfe .
25 I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin .
26 Then walk down to Far Field and wait .
27 Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms .
28 come up from , had a jug or two at come over here and stay the night and then walk down to in the morning .
29 Then walk out to the deck you helped to build ,
30 then speak immediately to the New OED Computer group Manager .
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